You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn’t want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won’t have to hear them ever again.
Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
It’s not just spending, it’s not just taxes, it’s not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
Political parties depend for existence and success, not so much on the holding of identical views, as on a shared philosophy and ties of loyalty and respect between members. So there are good reasons to try to find compromises when differences emerge on a specific matter.
I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don’t know?
I never ‘went Hollywood.’ Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn’t go the route of Hollywood parties.
But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.
The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
That’s what I love about Nashville and the music community – seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
I don’t really dance. I don’t drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
Any image I have, it’s just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you’re a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.
My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the ’60s to the ’80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid – or I was – I don’t think I’ve ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids’ parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough – but I don’t think he’s presidential. I think he’s incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I’m nervous as an American.
Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.
When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It’s not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.
It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn’t like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing ‘dumb’ to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I’ll buy one. I’ll take that one home.
One that I know people really like is my Crock-Pot mac and cheese. It’s comfort food that’s good for Super Bowl parties and easy to make.
‘It Girl’ is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
We have collectively to face up to the fact that in the two main political parties there are substantial disagreements on the best form Brexit should take.
BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the future of all these parties, I must be a capable person. I am grateful that everybody is accepting my capability.
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
When I go to parties, there’s a moment when I think, ‘I really don’t belong here.’
I’m not very good at parties. I’m a wallflower.
When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. ‘The Social Network’ painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook’s first year.
Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle’s cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
I don’t like parties past 2 am. Then it’s all losers and weirdos.
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the ’50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I’ve always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I’d just copy them. Not very pretty.
I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson’s show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.
People don’t realize all the stuff I gave up growing up. I could have gone to parties and had fun at adventure parks with friends on weekends and things like that. But I went out and worked my butt off for eight hours playing golf.
You don’t hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin’ drunk.
There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they’re commentary shows. They don’t have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don’t cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.
Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.
In L.A., unless you’ve just won an Oscar or you’re Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
I’ve done a lot of deals, and I’m skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table.
The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
Political parties could learn a lot from pro wrestling, as we have our passionate base, too, but we don’t necessarily gear our show around them.
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
I wasn’t some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn’t invited to any of the cool parties.
